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Sommerwill -a Devon Family: Group A2

Group A2 (Newton Tracey/Tawstock) Summerwill/ Somerwill

JOHN: (Summerwill) Son of John and Mary, baptised High Bray 13 Jun 1726 (See Group A1). Married MARY BASETT (born 22 Aug 1731). John buried Tawstock 29 Oct 1796.

JOHN (Somerwill): Baptised Newton Tracey 27 Feb 1762/3; married SUSANNA UPHAM, Tawstock 18 Dec 1783. Lived at Saint Hills (Senthills) Farm, Eastercombe in Tawstock. John (‘Late of Tawstock, Yeoman’) died 9 Feb 1815 according to Death Duty Register but burial recorded 2 May 1815 in Tawstock parish register. Estate valued at less than £300. Part of furniture left to Susanna a nd to son John when 21; residue equally divided among Susanna (wife), John, Elizabeth, Prudence and Richard. Susanna born c.1758; buried Tawstock 10 Jul 1833

WILLIAM: Born 26 Aug 1784; baptised Tawstock 20 Jan 1785.
JOHN: Born 6 Nov 1785; baptised Tawstock 27 Nov 1785; buried 4 Dec 1785
GRACE: Born 19 Dec 1786; baptised Tawstock 15 Feb 1787
SUSANNA: Born 11 Aug 1788; baptised Tawstock 11 Mar 1789
GEORGE: Born 10 Mar 1790; baptised Tawstock 19 May 1790; married FRANCES NORMAN, St Mary Steps, Exeter, 31 Dec 1820 (IGI). Frances baptised Thorverton 5 Jan 1800, dau of John Norman (baptised Thorverton 27 Dec 1762) and Frances (dau of William & Elizabeth Bowers). See Group A3
MARY: Born 2 Mar 1792; baptised Tawstock 9 May 1793
ELIZABETH: Born 1 Apr 1793; baptised Tawstock 9 May 1793
PRUDENCE: Born 22 Feb 1794; baptised Tawstock 4 Feb 1796
THOMAS: Born 5 May 1797; baptised Tawstock 25 May 1797; buried Tawstock 17 May 1814 (‘of Bristol, age 17’)
JOHN: Born 20 Apr 1798; baptised Tawstock 8 Dec 1799. Married ELIZABETH MORTIMER, Morchard Bishop 2 Jun 1827 (IGI). See Group A5
RICHARD: Born 9 Aug 1799; baptised Tawstock 8 Dec 1799; Richard (‘of Bishop’s Tawton’) married THIRZA THOMAS (soj), Pilton 9 Dec 1834. Tharza, daughter of William & Mary Thomas, baptised Swimbridge 5 Jan 1812. In 1861 census Richard is at Umberleigh House, Atherington, groom, married, age 54, servant of Charles Henry Williams, retired navy lieutenant. Thirza is at Grocer Shop, Cornwell St, Lambeth, London, head, married, 46, born Chittlehampton, grocer and cheesemonger, with nephew William Bevis, age 13, born Torquay.
HANNAH: Buried Tawstock 6 Jul 1802, age 3 months

GRACE: Baptised Newton Tracey 15 Apr 1767
WILLIAM: Baptised Newton Tracey 9 Feb 1768/9; buried 8 Apr 1770
MARY: Baptised Newton Tracey 11 Mar 1771; married John Morgan, woolcomber, Tawstock 1 Jan 1791